Staff Picks
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Staff Picks
How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life
By Ryan Schleicher
Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent discoveries in behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our every day.
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The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America
In her new book, Ann Neumann looks squarely at the issues surrounding death and dying in America.
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This is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon
By Sally Haldorson
Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers have written a speedy compendium of sports stories and human behavioral tendencies that serves up social science insight with agility and good humor.
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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It...Every Time
By Sally Haldorson
The author of Mastermind, a book that instructed us to think with deduction and precision in the vein of Sherlock Holmes, brings us The Confidence Game, a look at some of the most skillful cons every executed, how the grifters performed them, why people were often willing participants to the bitter end,
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What books are you giving this holiday season?
By Blyth Meier
Here’s what our staff is giving this holiday season.
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6 Non-Fiction Gift Books for the Business Reader (and really, anyone)
By Sally Haldorson
When a tie or scarf just won't do.
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What books are on your holiday nightstand?
By Blyth Meier
The 800-CEO-READ family is all set for the Thanksgiving holiday, and have some great books on hand to take with us to the couch after the feasting is done!
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The Go-Giver: A Little Story About A Powerful Business Idea
Bob Burg and John David Mann played an interesting role in bringing our Special Projects Manager Michael Jantz to our company. Michael explains.
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Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
By Aaron Schleicher
Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner have written a tale of loss and hope, of compassion, education, and development, all wrapped up in a beautiful love story.
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Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
By Sally Haldorson
"A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner—continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you—is a fine art, in and of itself." - Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Porchlight is a company filled with voracious readers—talented, creative individuals who know books, and who excel at moving them. Whenever we can, we like to do that by telling you about the books we’re reading.